The aim of Transcribe Georgian Papers is to produce useable text documents of the manuscript materials and not critical editions. Please be aware this document may contain errors in the transcription.
Found an error? Please report errors and issues in the transcription to transcribegpp@wm.edu.
To the Pp Augusta Elizabeth Mary and Sophia When I say my Dearest Augusta I mean this as an answer to all the four Princesses letters delivered to me by Mrs Beckendorff, to say that the Perusal of them gave me pleasure, would be the greatest falsehood I was [[unclear]] sad, and to say that it surprised me, as great a one, for I was fully aware that the Happenings of an independant Establishment must carry the idea of [[underline]] liberty [[/underline]] with it; and as this may perhaps may be the last time that anyone of you may be invited to take a Mothers advice let me beseech you well to consider that your situation is very [[underline]] different [[/underline]] to that of your Brothers who by their situations in life must appear in public and have their duties to perform in which they would injure themselves if they were not to appear. But in your set and under the present melancholy situation of your Father the going to public amusements excepting when Duty calls you would be the highest [[underline]] mark of indecency [[/underline]] possible. The Visits to your Brothers I will no further touch upon than to say that your names can be in the [[unclear]] mouths those that are accompanied without a Lady, and that was that Pleasure In [[unclear]] was it is should be well considered [[underline]] before [[/underline]] it is done, and in short may stop any of your means to talk, always to help in remembrance that no [[unclear]] is exempted from being criticized, and that the higher the Character the more it will be traduced; much more should I like to say but that would needless as it is very plain by the letter, your past being taken, and what
